Chapter 6
==Be Kurloz
Sorry, Kurloz is a bit busy right now.
==Be John
John sat down in a desk chair at his computer. He was playing Sburb, and the only one online was the Cancer. He frowned and put his chin in his hand. He was so bored. It was too hard to find the other people in his group of four. He hadn't found anyone, and somehow the Cancer had managed to find six people besides him already. That was more than half if the Cancer was included. He wished he could just find one other person. Even if it was only one, he'd be happy.
He stared at the screen another minute before groaning and putting his face in his hands. He'd probably never find any others. He was wasting his time. Way too many people played this game.
After a couple of seconds like that, John straightened up with a determined look on his face. He stood his character up and walked him over to a map of the continent he was on. He'd been to almost every town, except for a few. He frowned, trying to decide where to go next. He wasn't going to give up just yet. He scrolled his mouse over a tiny island over to the side of the continent. In the description it said it had a volcano. He shrugged and decided to go, if only to see the volcano. He wondered if it actually erupted. Probably not, it was just a game after all. There wasn't really a town on the island, more like a small collection of homes. There were also some ruins in a lake on it.
John clicked the icon, and sat back as the game loaded the area. Instead of the normal loading screen of a single fluctuating spirograph, it was a bunch of different sideways ones on a stem. He smiled at all the bright colors.
When the loading bar finally completed, the island filled the screen. It wasn't very big at all. It seemed to be self sustaining, with a farm and everything. He didn't see any houses, unlike what the map showed. He wondered why the map would show it if it wasn't actually there. It probably wasn't important. He grinned as he saw the volcano. It was huge and looked like it might blow any second.
He quickly looked around to see if anyone from his group was there, but he didn't see anyone at all. He ran up the side of the volcano to see if he could see over the top. He was almost to the top when he was stopped short by a message flashing on his screen.
gardenGnostic wants to pester you. Accept? Yes / No
John was confused; he didn't know the person it belonged to. There wasn't anyone around, and that was the only way players could "pester" or "troll" one another if they didn't know each other's usernames. He still clicked yes though. The person had to have a reason to pester him.
GG: who are you?
EB: I was about to ask you the same thing! and how are you pestering me?
GG: I'm on the same island as you!
EB: but where? I don't see you…
GG: why are you here?
EB: I'm sorry if I bothered you, I'm trying to find the people from my objective.
GG: objective? what's that?
EB: you mean you don't know? I thought everyone got one.
GG: no… at least I didn't. what is it?
EB: it's the thing the game gives you, to find the other people in your group.
GG: oh yeah! that's right, I remember now.
GG: it said I had to find someone with a disc symbol, a squid symbol and a ghost slime symbol. at least I think that's what the last one is. now that I look at it, it could be anything.
EB: hey! I think you're in my group!
GG: really? ok, then I'm going to come out into the open where we can see each other!
EB: ok.
John turned his character in a circle and spotted movement down by the weird ruins. They were strange because of the frog on top of a temple looking part. He wondered what kind of ancient civilization would worship frogs.
He walked down from the volcano and up to the girl that stood on the shore. She had long black hair with bright green eyes. On her shirt was a model of an atom. She waved and smiled at him.
A light flashed at him on the left of his screen and he clicked it. One of the symbols was now filled with the blue colored atom.
EB: you really are in my group! that's so cool!
GG: I'm Jade, who're you?
EB: I'm John! It's nice to meet you, Jade.
GG: have you found anyone else?
EB: no, but I did find a group of trolls that's really nice.
GG: what's their symbol alphabet?
EB: um, the zodiac I think.
GG: cool! I can't wait to meet them!
EB: one of them is online right now, you want to meet him?
GG: yeah!
John minimized the log window and clicked Karkat's icon on the right of the sign. He clicked "log", and then "add to existing log." With that, Karkat was in their chat.
CG: WHAT THE F*** DO YOU WANT, JOHN.
EB: I found someone in my group!
CG: CONGRATULATIONS, F***A**.
EB: hey, be nice! I just met her.
GG: hi! I'm jade!
CG: THANKS SO MUCH. CAN I LEAVE NOW?
EB: aren't you going to tell her your name?
CG: F*** NO.
EB: well that's too bad. nepeta told me your name yesterday! It's karkat.
CG: F*** THIS S***. I'M LEAVING. F*** YOU, JOHN. F*** NEPETA TOO.
EB: hey, karkat, don't say that! she didn't mean to tell me, it just slipped out.
CG: BYE, HAVE FUN WITH YOUR F***ING LIVES.
-carcinoGeneticist left the log—
EB: I'm sorry jade, he's not normally this bad. well ok, he is, but you get used to it. the other trolls are better though.
GG: don't worry, I'm sure he'll get over it! but for now I don't think I'll talk to him. he seems very rude.
EB: I'm really sorry, I thought he'd be nicer.
GG: it's fine! Oh I'm sorry I gotta go. Bye!
EB: bye! :B
John waved at Jade, and she disappeared after waving back. John sighed, it was going to be a long day.
A/R: Edit 2: I probably shouldn't be writing about this here, but…I got a really good idea for another fanfic! We'll see how it goes, and if it picks up steam I might write it on the side of this one or maybe after this is done. If not, then you won't hear about it again.